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Originally Posted by kelly
Hartside - I sympathise!
I had to have a new tyre after 1500 miles. Ripped the side wall - big hole in it, not repairable and obviously the gunk/compressor would have been a waste of time. Got towed home by the AA (had only had the car 2 weeks). Then had to get the wheel off (well boyfriend did) and had to abandon my Civic for a couple of days whilst I found the cheapest price in the shortest time I could for the same type of tyre which was £150 (balanced but not fitted). (18" storms on it).
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This is why I think Honda is going to make a fair number of enemies (me already) by not supplying a spare wheel. In the last eight years, I have had three punctures, two of which wouldn't have been fixed by HondaGunk. If this happens to me with this car, they are going to get so much bad publicity it will really hurt. It is very short term thinking on Honda's part to save a few pounds on the cost of the car.
Renault tried the same sort of thing by not paying the
TMC licences on their dearer Satnav systems. It ended up with them supplying replacement CDs, at full retail cost to large numbers of owners over the three years it took them to see the error of their ways. Honda is being equally short sighted with the spare wheel issue.